*1: Trefusis Grove near
Falmouth, 1850, EAW
(TRU) (Paton 1969a: 751).
*2: Wadebridge, 1894,
RVT (B) (Paton 1969a:
751).
Grows as scattered stems among other mosses, etc.,
or where plentiful may form smooth mats or low-growing wefts,
sometimes extending over many square metres. Habitat notes
from Cornwall are as follows. Most often on soil (humic or
loamy, typically circum-neutral to slightly basic; sometimes
apparently moderately acidic although this not checked by pH
measurements) or ground-litter of dead leaves etc., sometimes
on thin soil layers over rocks or masonry (concrete, masonry
debris), less often trailing over rock (slaty). It is
typically in damp to rather wet places, often sheltered, with
light to moderate shade, less often in open. Habitat types
commonly occupied are woodland edges (deciduous or mixed with
conifers, often e.g. beside tracks or on stream or river
banks, occurring on slopes or flat ground), beside groves of
trees or hazel coppice, in flushes in damp deciduous woodland,
on laneside banks or stream and river banks. Less frequently
it occurs in short grassland of pastures or meadows near
rivers, lakes or woodland edges, in churchyards, on a bank
above a creek and in Salix cinerea carrs.
One record was among short turf and masonry debris near the
wall of a ruined mine building
Associates recorded included Brachythecium
rutabulum, Calliergonella
cuspidata,
Didymodon nicholsonii, Kindbergia
praelonga,
Lophocolea bidentata, Plagiomnium
undulatum,
Plagiothecium succulentum, Rhytidiadelphus
squarrosus,
Thamnobryum alopecurum, Thuidium tamariscinum;
Chrysosplenium
opopositifolium,
Geranium robertianum, grasses, Hedera hibernica, Polystichum
setiferum, Primula
vulgaris, Valeriana
officinalis, Viola
riviniana; also growing beneath Gunnera tinctoria.
Not seen c.fr.